Reforming Iraqi Journalism and Mass Communication Higher Education

Abstract

Journalism and mass communication higher education in Iraq is well established but largely isolated from global developments since the 1970s. In the post–Iraq war period, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) implemented a multiyear project to work with the leadership of Iraqi higher education to help update the curriculum in journalism and mass communication in that country. This project adapted the UNESCO Model Curricula for Journalism Education to the evolving higher education environment in Iraq. The authors were funded by UNESCO to help facilitate the adoption and adaptation of the model curriculum to the unique situation in Iraq.